Ordinary diners who take part in our annual survey each spring review restaurants and leave their feedback, but we also ask them to score restaurants from 1-5 on food, service and ambience. Harden’s then uses an average of these scores and measures them against other establishments in the same price bracket to arrive at the ratings published in the guide and online.

Snippets from some of your feedback may end up in the overall Harden’s review, noticeably they appear in “double quotation marks”. The rest of our pithy, bite-sized restaurant summaries are compiled by analysing the survey data and extracting recurring themes, looking at whether or not a venue was nominated in any of our categories – like ‘favourite’ or ‘most overpriced’ – and, of course, looking at the ratings for food, service and ambience.

The Harden’s ratings indicate that a restaurant is:

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All reviews are compiled from survey comments and ratings, without any regard for our own personal opinions, except in cases where restaurants are too new to have been included in the survey. If you want the editors’ view on new restaurants in London you can find them in our Editors’ Review section.

Barnet Restaurant Guide

Harden's Guides have been compiling reviews of the best restaurants in Barnet since 1998.

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Dating back to the 18th Century, a public house has stood on the Green Dragon site for many years. We are a great destination food pub within a traditional environment known as much for our real ales and extensive wine as our great food.
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This hotel dining room, occupying a former boathouse set back from the main street, has built up a loyal local following for its dependable food  grilled fish, steaks, risotto and so on  and reasonable prices (especially the bargain set menu).

The mostly Japanese clientele speaks volumes for the virtues of these busy and cramped canteens (like a typical Tokyo dive), which serve excellent sushi and have plenty of other dishes to choose from: portions are generous and the price is good for the quality. Top Tip  a wide variety of great value bento boxes.

For the first 20 years of this guide, this famous pizza chain with its surprisingly distinctive branches was  with tedious regularity  the surveys most mentioned group: constantly re-inventing itself to remain everyones favourite standby, especially with kids in tow. Competition is sharper nowadays however, and since its ownership changed a couple of years ago (to Hony Capital) ratings and the volume of feedback have slipped well below their historical average. Yes, it is still much-mentioned, and still as reliable as ever to armies of loyal supporters, but harsher critics are stunned by the complacency and staleness of the brand: even the ubiquitous, good value voucher deals are starting to lose their shine.